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Dissecting folliculitis of the scalp (or dissecting cellulitis or perifolliculitis capitis abscedens et suffodiens of Hoffman) is a rare inflammatory scalp condition (Otberg and Shapiro, Fitzpatrick’s dermatology. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2019; Branisteanu et al., Rom J Morphol Embryol 50(4):719–724, 2009). This disease belong to follicular occlusion triad (Oakley and Marrison, Follicular occlusion syndrome. DermNet New Zealand Trust (online serial), 2014). Here we present a 17-year-old male patient with a dissecting folliculitis. He also was obese and has a habit of smoking every day.
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Anum, Q., Tofrizal, Julia, D.S., Birawati, S. (2022). Dissecting Folliculitis of the Scalp. In: Waśkiel-Burnat, A., Sadoughifar, R., Lotti, T.M., Rudnicka, L. (eds) Clinical Cases in Scalp Disorders. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93426-2_46
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